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"Start Together and Finish Together": Shifts in the Premises and Paradigms Underlying the Scientific Study of Religion.Beckford, James A. (2000) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39:4: 481-495.

The sociology of religion was more integrated with general sociology early & late in the 20th century, & marginal at mid-century.

Anonymity and the Rise of Universal Occasions for Religious Ritual; An Extension of the Durkheimian Theory.Reeves, Edward B., and Robert A. Bylund (1992) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 31:2: 113-130.

"Social Location of Thought" as a Heuristic Construct in New Testament Study.Rohrbaugh, Richard L. (1987) Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30: 103-119.

Clarifies social location as "the common structural position occupied by a number of individuals in relation to a larger whole. Its specification would ideally designate the limited range of experience a position implies..

Associated Search Terms: Early Christian; Sociologyofknowledge

The Social Construction of a Religious Prophecy.Shepherd, Gordon (1987) Sociological Inquiry 57:4: 394-414.

Based on interview data & participant observation; makes a sociology-of-knowledge interpretation of a community response to a prophecy made in a small Arkansas community.

Concerning the Sociology of Religion.Scheler, Max (1984) In Barbara Hargrove (ed.) Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge. Modernization and Pluralism in Christian Thought and Structure. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 35-59.

In Candid Conversation: Theology and Sociology of Knowledge.Schmidt, Elizabeth (1984) In Barbara Hargrove (ed.) Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge. Modernization and Pluralism in Christian Thought and Structure. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 15-32.

Overview of the sociology of knowledge; exploration of its implications for theology.

Associated Search Terms: Sociologyofknowledge; Theology

The Sociology of the Sociology of Religion. Deficiencies and Opportunities.Laeyendecker, Leo (1984) Social Compass 31:2/3: 157-168.

Associated Search Terms: Sociologyofknowledge; Sociologyof religion

Sociology of Knowledge and the Study of Early Christianity.Remus, Harold E. (1984) In Barbara Hargrove (ed.) Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge. Modernization and Pluralism in Christian Thought and Structure. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 99-121.

Associated Search Terms: Early Christian; Sociologyofknowledge

Social Change and Collective Behaviour: the Revival in Eighteenth Century Ross-Shire.Bruce, Steve (1983) British Journal of Sociology 34:4: 554-572.

Applies a non-reductive, social construction model to an Evangelical conversion movement in 19th century Ross-shire, Scotland.

Popular Occultism and Critical Social Theory: Exploring Some Themes in Adorno's Critique of Astrology and the Occult.Nederman, Cary J., and James Wray Goulding (1982) Sociological Analysis 42:4: 325-332.

Occultism fosters pseudo-individualism & stifles self-reflection; it achieves a total internalization of domination, legitimating the irrationality of industrial society with a distorted consciousness.

The American Catholic Call for Liberty and Justice for All: An Analysis in the Sociology of Knowledge./Toward the Establishment of Liberal Catholicism in America.Varacalli, Joseph A. (1980) Unpublished Ph.D.. dissertation, Rutgers University. [DA 41:1 A, p. 410]/Washington: University Press of America, 1981.

Interprets the U.S. Catholic Bicentennial, "Liberty & Justice for All," with charisma dispersion, rationalization, & the sociology of knowledge.